Quotes of: English-teacher Keyword

Sherif Ali: Have you no fear, English? T.E. Lawrence: My fear is my concern.

Lawrence of Arabia

Legolas: [in Elvish] You're late. [takes a good look at Aragorn] Legolas: [in English] You look terrible.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Tatiana: But, there are some English customs that are going to be changed. James Bond: But of course darling.

From Russia with Love

[last lines] [English subtitles] Irene Menéndez Hastings: It'll be complicated. Benjamín Esposito: I don't care. Irene Menéndez Hastings: Shut the door.

The Secret in Their Eyes

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

John Ruskin

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

Alex Winston

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Michelle Rodriguez

English Commander: I hope you've washed your ass this morning, it's about to be kissed by a king.

Braveheart

[to Murron before assaulting her] English Soldier: You remind me of my daughter back home.

Braveheart

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

Utada Hikaru

The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.

Vinnie Jones

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

Vikas Swarup

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

William Blackstone

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.

Philip Treacy

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

Christopher Plummer

So, O king, does the present life of man on earth seem to me, in comparison with the time which is unknown to us, as though a sparrow flew swiftly through the hall, coming in by one door and going out by the other, and you, the while, sat at meat wit...

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

My darling, I'm waiting for you — how long is a day in the dark, or a week? The fire is gone now, and I'm horribly cold. I really ought to drag myself outside but then there would be the sun. . . I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings and on...

The English Patient

I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief expo...

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

There is a vast expanse of time before the Norman Conquest in 1066, from which fragments of literary texts remain, although these fragments make quite a substantial body of work. If we consider that the same expanse of time has passed between Shakesp...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after Johnson's death in 1784, of producing what is now held to be a model of biography; rich in detail and anecdote, a...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland